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Spurned by discerning voters were such obvious misnomers as "Lit," "The Blaze," "Sassi," and "Chrysalis." Pines won two tickets to a Boston show, a date with the first feminine subscriber to the magazine, and a free subscription for himself...
Quick action on the part of Charles Gould, employee of the Athletic Association working at the Business School tennis courts, and the Boston Fire Department controlled the fire and limited the damages to an estimated $1500. Cause of the blaze, according to fire officials' report, was spontaneous combustion started by the paper cartons stored in the building...
...estimated by the fire officials that had the blaze reached serious proportions that the steel girders supporting the stadium might have been warped in the heat, thus causing serious damage to the structure. University officials have not as yet made any statement concerning damage or plans for repairs...
...Seven, Alexander Jackson, once tried to explain why their roughhewn version of Paris' impressionism was just the thing for painting Canada. Wrote he: "From sunlight in the hardwoods with bleached, violet-white tree trunks against a blaze of red and orange, we wander into the denser spruce and pine woods where the sunlight filters through; gold and silver splashes playing with startling vividness on a birch trunk or patch of green moss. Such a subject would change entirely in ten minutes, and unless the first impression was firmly adhered to, the sketch would end in confusion...
...fires of revolt, which flared up in Athens, Tenn. a fortnight ago, broke out anew last week 865 miles away in tiny, shabby Central Falls, R.I. (pop. 26,000). Again it was Army & Navy veterans who set the blaze; this time, four rookie policemen. But there were differences: 1) the rookies had never meant to light the torch of civic reform in the first place; 2) they fired no shots, broke no laws in waking up the town...